I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a
message.
- Unknown
In the long history of the world, only a few
generations have been granted the role of
defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility--I
welcome it.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow
beyond personal responsibility. The more people
that learn to be fully accountable for their
lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and
the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.
- Reed Konsler
People are not truly self-governing unless they
are free to fail.
- Stephen R. Covey
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up
anybody who is truly free. First, society begins
by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try
to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by
loading honors on your head.
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his
own development. It is our capacity to mold
ourselves.
- Rollo May
Everything that is really great and inspiring is
created by the individual who can labor in
freedom.
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
There is a wonderful law of nature that the three
things we crave most- happiness, freedom, and
peace of mind- are always attained by giving them
to someone else.
- Anonymous
I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I
please, in words.
- William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew.
A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
- Victor Hugo
The Saga of the Beast
Where the press is free, and every man able to
read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Make your thinking orderly and free from emotional
overtones, and you will see people and things as
they are, with clarity and charity
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When people are free to do as they please, they
usually imitate each other
- Eric Hoffer
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom,
and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
- Patricia Sampson
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the
oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
'Letter from Birmingham Jail' Why We Can't Wait 1963.
People Ask Me, "Why is it free?" and I tell them
(really slowly) "Because it doesn't cost
anything."
- Bill Austin
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they
revere
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
Him that I love, I wish to be Free - Even from me.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love has no price. It is only love if it is free.
- Melody Beattle
Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate
the differences between their ways and yours.
- Unknown
Advice is probably the only free thing which
people won't take.
- Lothar Kaul
What you get free costs too much.
- Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)
French dramatist
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's
counseling; if you can use either one, it's a
miracle.
- Jack Adams (1838-1918)
US historian, author
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of
what is desired but by controlling the desire.
- Epictetus.
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than
one generation away from extinction. It is not
ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and
defended constantly by each generation, for it
comes only once to a people. Those who have known
freedom, and then lost it, have never known it
again.
- Ronald Reagan